Artkansas 

The race begins...

First person to hack the iPhone built a self-driving car. In his garage

Artkansas 

And Tesla's Response

cooker

Apparently driverless cars have twice the accident rate of human driven cars, since they refuse to break the law.

Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

Artkansas 

So I saw. That behavior will have to be tailored for each area. Russian drivers seem to have less lane discipline and drive more aggressively than Americans.

Roody

I read recently that they are using algorithms so that the car computers actually "learn" how to handle human behavior and anticipate. for exaqmple, they won't blindly follow the laws at four way stops, but will handle them more like humans do. I also read that these self-driven cars actually have more computer power than the newest jetliners.

cooker

I think it will be tricky to handle bike/car interactions at 4 way stops. Some cyclists assume they have the right of way all the time and cruise through expecting cars to stop, and as a result most drivers yield to bikes even if the car got there first.

Twice I had the same experience that I stopped for a car that was coming from my right, the confused driver hesitated, then started forward, only to have to jam on the brakes as a cyclist coming from behind me blew through the intersection. Driverless cars are going to be as befuddled as that driver, since cyclists are more unpredictable than motorists.

They also say that overtaking cars give a wider berth to cyclists who look inexperienced, are riding upright bikes in a skirt (the "Mary Poppins effect") or don't have a helmet. I wondered if that will be programmed into the driverless car algorithm? It's hard to believe they will "learn" to distinguish among these different cyclist types.